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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO PYRRHA IN THE POCONOS, by RHEINHART KLEINER First Line: Sweet, you have gone for a season's vacationing Last Line: You are expected at home in a week! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey | |||
Sweet, you have gone for a season's vacationing, Far from Manhattan's three million or so; New Street, the scene of my once frequent stationing -- Why, but to meet you? -- seems empty and slow. Dull is the vista of Wall Street and Trinity; Broadway is just a delusion and snare; Wanly I view each familiar vicinity, Knowing and grieving that you are not there. Dining alone in a haunt of the Villagers Here on West Fourth Street, I try to forget; Scant is the comfort from Pirates and pillagers; Ah, none at all, from a green cigarette! What has the playhouse of verve or variety? All that is thrilling and new has been shown; What were the brightest and best, but satiety, Seen without holding your hand in my own? Yet there is balm for my spirit in Gilead; Hope for the heart that is chastened and meek; Else were the tale of my sorrows an Iliad; You are expected at home in a week! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EPIC STARS by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE CHILDHOOD OF HOMER by MARY KINZIE HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS by EDWIN MUIR HOMER IN BASIC by KENNETH REXROTH THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER by JOHN KEATS BROOKLYN, MY BROOKLYN by RHEINHART KLEINER TO LALAGE (ON HER RESIGNATION AS FILE CLERK) by RHEINHART KLEINER THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE |
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